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50 Articles for 2019 Number 17
Hanuman has bestowed a toy Iphone 11

In the annals of broken verbal contracts this must go as the sterling one...admin Sheela Raman has now downgraded the gift to toy IPhone 11 . So i hope it has AAA batteries and i wont end up spending to buy the same.

Venkatanathan R added a worthy list of songs on Rama for my article number 16 and i place my thanks here and now. This is the spirit with which we should either write or add to the published articles.

Azhwars were Vaishnavite saint poets who lived in south india (7th - 9th century) and their hymns are called Pasuram-s and Prabhandam-s. A great Vaishnavite commentator Peria Vachan Pillai has culled the Ramayana story from these hymns of the Saint poets and has composed a long tamil poem called Pasurappadi Sri Ramayanam (Ramayana according to Hymns) which is usually sung as a Ragamalika .
http://www.acharya.org/sloka/pap/pr.pdf

Arunagirinathar a saint poet who was chiefly devoted to Lord Muruga sang 1000's of unique compositions called Thirupugazh which are treasures of rhythmic variations. A unique feature being copious references to stories praising all the principal deities of the Hindu Pantheon. For example Arunagiri delights in referring to Muruga as Vishnus nephew and thus through that connect refers to many stories in Ramayana.

References range from delightful descriptions of Kausalya petting the kid Rama to a local folklore of a location deriving a name of chiruvai , associated with Lava-Kushas fight with Rama. Many examples can be highlighted including one in the song Aalakaala (Thiruchengodu kongu region) where the entire story of Ramayana is narrated in 3 lines in capsule form.
http://www.kaumaram.com/thiru/nnt0597_u.html

Now comes something even more delightful to showcase the influence of Ramayana in Carnatic music.

Look at the ragas in our system

  • Hanumatodi
  • Ramapriya
  • Raghupriya
  • Kosalam
  • Sindhuramakriya
  • Ravichandrika

Janya Ragas are no less elegant in their names

  • Dasaratipriya
  • Ramachudamani
  • Ramamurthi
  • Ramaleela
  • Ramagiri
  • Ravanapriya Aa | s r g m p d n S ||

    Ava | S d p m g s ||

Since there are no compositions in the janya ragas probably the connoisseurs of music. are not much aware.

Now if anyone is going to be curious if Ravanapriya was indeed the favourite raga of Ravana or was it created to vilify the Shiva Bhakth is a moot point. ! Am happy Hanuman bestowed the Iphone whether he likes Todi ahem Hanumatodi or not...

to be continued with one last article...

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